Well, we already had the rain kilebasa, which is the son's favorite and I'm now deferring to. If anything, it's going to be rain chef oh' bor' ing.

We went out last night to prep and everybody had wiped out the canned goods and lines were down the street at the gas station. We're good though, it looks like it's going to go east, but we're going to get a ton of weather.

When the storm slows down, I'm going to invest in some jerry cans and fuel stabilizer and just keep 'em full in the garage and make sure my propane tank is full along with some kind of stove or adapter. 9 times out of 10, we're good here, we're protected by St Pete (ha ha SW! kidding..) and we have a gas stove and we're right next to the power station, so we've never been without power for more than 24 hours.

Tomorrow I'll be ducking out to New Orleans (via Perry FL for a first stop). The wife's family was over there and was expecting my wife this weekend for Mom care duty before this storm thing anyways. The house is actually somewhat high up for Pinellas, so as long as any storm surge is <20ft we're okay (that doesn't look very likely at all at this point) provided the drainage ditch in the back doesn't flood out or something.

The forecast has enough windy possibilities that I'll put up the storm shutters for the first time since I've owned the house. I think most likely even this won't be necessary, but if the forecast errors and Irma goes more west, Sunday to Monday will be a doozy of a day. Doesn't look as bad for us as Miami at this point, though.